Trash Day

trash day -- noun

A day on which people place their garbage outside of their living quarters to be picked up by a waste collector and brought to a landfill.

In Toluca Lake, Trash Day falls on a Wednesday each week. This means that every Wednesday at 7am I am pleasantly woken up by the incessant [precautionary] "truck-in-reverse" BEEPING, loud sprays of ozone annihilating exhaust, and the jolting screech of the breaks at every stop.

Can we not find a QUIETER alternative to the garbage truck? Seriously. I know this is very un-American [read: un-Republican] of me, but why doesn't Toyota create a Prius garbage truck? Aside from the fact that every garbage man would be completely emasculated and probably quit his job as a result, I don't see a downside. This is a city filled with unemployed would-be actors and models and let's face it, there just aren't enough restaurants to employ them all. Let's use our human capital wisely, Los Angeles.